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On Tiananmen

I like to post this video for any talk about tiananmen
Likewise this Qiaocollective post
Or this wikileak
In a similar vein this CIA document about the Hungarian uprising that got crushed by the USSR

On Tibet

Image of UN lying about tibetan not being taught in Tibet schools
Scan of internal CIA document admitting Dalai Lama only had support among the wealthy elite and he was a dictator
Comparison of tibetans and indigenous americans

[This graph about socialist policies comes in handy too]https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/855e848b-3057-4fe0-9964-47cb8a4fb42a.jpeg)
NATO is full of nazis
NATO is built on nazis Israel killed israelis during october 7th and another one

Harris lost the election because of Gaza

When talking about being propagandised by the CPC I like to talk about how this is just modernised version of the concept of Brainwashing that was cooked up to explain soldiers growing a class conscience.

When talking about fentanyl or US foreign interventions I often refer to this post about the US facilitating the global drug trade
or This thread

spoiler About voting for the lesser evil
I like quoting this guy from 1848:

"I hear the old political saw, that "we must take the least of two evils." My friend from Ohio [Mr. Giddings] has already riddled this excuse, so that I might well leave it untouched; but I cannot forbear a brief observation. It is admitted, then, that Cass and Taylor both are evils. For myself, if two evils are presented to me, I will take neither."
Or Hunter S. Thompson
That's the real issue this time," he said. "Beating Nixon. It's hard to even guess how much damage those bastards will do if they get in for another four years."

The argument was familiar, I had even made it myself, here and there, but I was beginning to sense something very depressing about it. How many more of these goddamn elections are we going to have to write off as lame, but "regrettably necessary" holding actions? And how many more of these stinking double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote for something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

Now with another one of these big bogus showdowns looming down on us, I can already pick up the stench of another bummer. I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing this year is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 – and as far as I can tell, we've gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same.

—Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72

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For critiquing the concept of "authoritarianism"

I like to talk about Gene Sharp. Here's three articles shitting on him
Gene sharp I
Gene sharp II
Gene sharp III
I also like to point out that the country that fosters an academic class busy with crying about chinese "authoritarianism" it is clear that these prominent acadmics do not actually care about said concept, since their own country do far worse stuff.

• Chicago black site
• Soviet Gulags were better than current day US prisons
  

For discussions about Ukraine

• Ukraine did Nordstream 2
• Libfriendly article about ukraine being full of nazis
• Ukraine is full of nazis
  

Hope you get some more good stuff. I need to update my stores, especially on Ukraine